ISUW 2025 Speaker

Mr. S R Narasimhan is the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Grid Controller of India Limited (Grid-India), formerly known as POSOCO since 25th March 2022. After a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986, he joined BHEL, a premier power generation equipment company in India. In 1988, he moved to Central Electricity Authority (CEA), Government of India to take up Power System Operation and in 1996 moved to POWERGRID. After three decades of experience in Power System Operation spread across three control centres including National level, he joined the Grid-India Board in Nov 2018 as Director (System Operation). He has handled all facets of power system operation ranging from interconnection of regional grids, interconnection with neighbouring countries of Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal, operational planning, scheduling, real time operation and event analysis besides deployment of the necessary tools for Visualization and Situational Awareness. He has also implemented several electricity market reforms in India from 2001 till date. He has contributed to several Expert Committees at the Government and regulatory levels in different areas ranging from system operation, grid integration of Renewable Energy (RE) resources, Grid Code and optimization to institution building. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, Senior Member of IEEE and a Distinguished Member of CIGRE. He is the Chairman of CIGRE Study Committee C2-India since 2022. He was conferred with the IEEE-PES, Delhi Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2019. He is also the receipient of 'NPSC Industry Excellence Award' for the year 2024. He was president of GO-15 (a global organisation of large grid operators) for the year 2024 and currently holds the position of Vice President for 2025. He has published over fifty (50) papers at the national and international level and widely travelled